2911 bandwidth limitations

I've seen many discussions on this topic, but not much of a clear breakdown of router performance with different services turned on....For instance if running only QoS, BGP, and EIGRP.

On a router that connects a remote site to the WAN is a 2911 sufficent for a 100 Mbps circuit

From documentation, if all services are being used..VPN,QoS,NAT etc....the limit is 35 Mbps. We are only using QoS, BGP, EIGRP with slightly more than 200 routes. It appears that with only QoS running, the 2911 can handle 125 Mbps.

We have a 2911 at the site that needs a circuit increase to 100 Mbps and would like to know if the 2911 router will be able to handle it.

Read Table 3 again. The 225

Read Table 3 again. The 225 is number of tunnels, not Mbps. Encryption Mbps is in Table 2 and lists the 2911 at 170 Mbps and they are unclear on packet size. However, Table 7 is a bit clearer about traffic mix, and there Mbps is listed as 61. Again, half that for a duplex link.

Table 5 and Table 8 are probably reasonable performance guides (vs. the "WAN" table "and kitchen sink"). But for 100 Mbps (duplex), you want one of those tables to list 200 Mbps for the 2911, and neither does, which is why I believe it's undersized.

After reading the doc closer,

After reading the doc closer, it appears there are all these caveats...

They explain how voice packets are much smaller and will effect the CPU more and so on....how is one to figure this out...? Do we need to perform our own tests? Or, maybe install the 2911 and watch the CPU?

Indeed, a router's

Indeed, a router's performance can be very variable based on the nature of the traffic and how the device is configured. (To avoid this confusion, the later 4K ISRs have performance limits set to usually insure you can also get x bandwidth forwarding, regardless of your traffic or configuration. The downside with this approach, though, you need to buy a more "powerful" router then you really need.)

That said, your device with your traffic and your config is the only fully accurate model of how it will perform.

By "WAN", they mean duplex

By "WAN", they mean duplex bandwidth. All the other tables show aggregate bandwidth.

I.e. 35 Mbps would be 70 Mbps, or your table 2's 125 Mbps would support 62.5 Mbps of "WAN" bandwidth. That's still quite a difference, but the 35 Mbps allows for almost any configuration, if you're sure you only will be doing similar to what's in table 2, you can go by that measurement.

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